Walk This Way - Intro to DevOps

"DevOps" is a term that has become mainstream enough to be hated, misunderstood, misused, and abused. But what is "DevOps"? And, more importantly, why should I care?

Lightning Talk from RubyNation

Transcript

1. Walk This Way An Introduction to DevOps
2. Nathen Harvey • Technical Community Manager at Opscode • Co-host of the Food Fight Show Podcast • Meetup Organizer • DevOpsDC & MongoDC • @nathenharvey
3. DevOps
4. DevOps • I f*%$ing hate DevOps!
5. DevOps • I f*%$ing hate DevOps! • Which DevOps tool should we use?
6. DevOps • I f*%$ing hate DevOps! • Which DevOps tool should we use? • A job title at your company includes: • DevOps Engineer • DevOps Lead
7. DevOps • I f*%$ing hate DevOps! • Which DevOps tool should we use? • A job title at your company includes: • DevOps Engineer • DevOps Lead • Your company has a “DevOps Team”
9. What is DevOps? • Cultural and professional movement • Development and Operations working together toward a common goal • Leveraging ideas & processes from other industries • Enabling things like continuous delivery
10. The Back Office Becomes The Front Office “In ten years, I’m certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn’t intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.” Kim, Gene; Behr, Kevin; Spafford, George (2013-01-10). The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Kindle Location 5802). IT Revolution Press. Kindle Edition
11. NOT DevOps...
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140 Operations QA Dev Product Management
13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140 DevOps QA Dev Product Management
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16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bontempscharly/8094344618 DevOps QA Dev Product Management $ sudo su -
17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bontempscharly/8094344618 DevOps QA Dev Product Management $ sudo su -
20. DevOps is not... • A new name for • System Administration • Operations • Release Engineering • Site Reliability Engineering
21. DevOps is not... • A position • A team • A tool
22. DevOps is About CAMS • Culture • Automation • Measurement • Sharing Willis, John (2010-07-16) http://www.opscode.com/blog/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/
23. What is a “DevOps” Culture? • Open Communication • Incentive and Responsibility Alignment • Respect • Trust Walls, Mandi (April, 2013). Building a DevOps Culture. O’Reilly http://oreilly.com/radarreports/building-devops-culture.csp
24. Automation • Use tools to reflect and reinforce the cultural goals you’re striving for • communication • goals & responsibility • respect • trust
25. Measurement • Data > Opinion
26. Sharing • Knowledge openly shared within an organization • Knowledge openly shared with other organizations
27. The 80s: The Decade That Made Us
29. Run DMC • “Oh, hell no! This is hillbilly gibberish” https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photo/default.aspx?photographID=7360
30. Run DMC • “Oh, hell no! This is hillbilly gibberish” • “I don’t understand this code” https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photo/default.aspx?photographID=7360
31. Aerosmith • “What the hell are they doing to our song?” http://www.mikethefanboy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Aerosmith-005.jpg
32. Aerosmith • “What the hell are they doing to our song?” • “It works fine on my machine” http://www.mikethefanboy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Aerosmith-005.jpg
33. What happened? • Rick Rubin put Run DMC & Aerosmith in the studio together • “It was crazy good, man”
34. Walk This Way The 80s: The Decade That Made Us
35. Walk This Way The 80s: The Decade That Made Us
36. DevOps • Cultural and professional movement • Development and Operations working together toward a common goal • Leveraging ideas & processes from other industries • Enabling things like continuous delivery
37. To-do • Put dev and ops in the same room • Take a whole-systems view of your technology platform • Reinforce culture with technology, and vice versa • Take responsibility • Trust your teammates
38. To-stop • Mislabeling things • Hoarding information • Looking for someone to blame • Waiting for someone else to transform your business
39. Bring The Noise http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44943949/Anthrax+feat+Public+Enemy+AnthraxPublicEnemyrockrapmash9.jpg
40. Thank You! • Want to talk about Chef or DevOps? • foodfightshow.org • @nathenharvey • Chef Fundamentals Training • June 25-26 • “RUBYNATION” saves you 25% • opscode.eventbrite.com